Meaning

Obsolete form of showy..

Example Sentences

She was a very ſhewey, good-looking woman: ſhe had been, probably, reckoned handſome in the days of her youth: they certainly, by the effort ſhe made to ſet off her face and figure to the greateſt advantage, thoroughly convinced the moſt careleſs ſpectator formarum, that ſhe had not given up, in her own mind, all pretenſions to admiration.

They were shewn into the usual sitting room, well-proportioned & well-furnished;—tho’ it saw Furniture rather originally good & extremely well kept, than new or shewey—[…]

One simple but very shewey method of exhibiting bonfires or illuminations was practiced. These consisted of barrels of straw or shavings which were arrayed round a square — as the Piazza Colonna &c — and when these were set on fire, the staves confined the material & retained the flame — so as to render it more permanent than I should have expected.

I saw the servants of the Duke of Northumberland in their shewey dress liveries, throwing lumps of bread and cheese among the dense crowd of vagabonds they had collected together . . .

When Should You Use Shewey?

Use shewey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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